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. 2021 Apr 14;4(1):e26316.
doi: 10.2196/26316.

An Online Calculator to Better Understand the Impact of False-Negative COVID-19 Polymerase Chain Reaction Test Results in the Context of Anesthesia Providers

Sean Runnels  1 , John Frederick Pearson  1 , Jon Dean Samuels  2 , Rohan Kirit Panchamia  2
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An Online Calculator to Better Understand the Impact of False-Negative COVID-19 Polymerase Chain Reaction Test Results in the Context of Anesthesia Providers

Sean Runnels et al. JMIR Perioper Med. .

Abstract

What does the COVID-19 false-negative exposure problem mean in the context of a local anesthesia practice? We present a customizable online calculator designed to quantify and better understand individual and aggregate provider exposure risk.

Keywords: COVID-19; airway management; anesthesia; calculator; exposure; false negative; false-negative rate; infectious disease; provider exposure; risk; testing; transmission.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: SR is the CEO of Through The Cords LLC as well as an associate professor of anesthesiology at the University of Utah. The other authors have no conflicts of interest. Calconic.com is an online calculator host company that enables the creation of online calculators disseminated on the web. No data or metadata pertaining to users are collected by any of the authors of this work or any entity associated with these authors. Hosting of the online calculator is currently free of charge and should remain so to users in the long term. Any fees associated with Calconic hosting in the future, should those arise, will be paid for directly by the authors.

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False-negative exposure risk calculator outputs for the University of Utah Department of Anesthesiology for November 15, 2020, at a COVID-19 test sensitivity of 70%. PCR: polymerase chain reaction.
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Figure 2
False-negative exposure risk calculator outputs for the University of Utah Department of Anesthesiology for November 15, 2020, at a COVID-19 test sensitivity of 90%. PCR: polymerase chain reaction.
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